Collaboration

Working with others is challenging enough without technology getting in the way. We have relied on third party services to do video conferencing, messaging and file sharing, but it isn't always clear what they are doing with the content we are passing around. It's also expensive and complicated to scale up a platform to manage wide scale interaction so most organizations don't have the skills or resources to bring these functions in-house. Until now.

Technologies don't magically become solutions. They are used within domain, design and deployment contexts. This talk will focus on the singular notion of Collaboration and how it cross-cuts the distributed systems we are building.

Once we have the ability to establish Identity, authenticate credentials and engage Secrecy to establish Trust, we are willing to work together and share information in distributed systems. Having the ability to use Peer to Peer and Decentralized technologies and standards means we don't necessarily have to rely upon third party services or attempt to replace them with our own half-assed implementations.

This talk will focus on standards that help us collaborate easily, securely and cost-effectively with partners in the same building or across the globe.

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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